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Played Challenges

Satisfy the go linter - 1611 entries

You just came up with this briliant go vars package. But dang, you forgot to add comments to the exported variables. Can you add a comment over each variable with a TODO-placeholder?

Best score: 20
Best player score: 26
Position: #197 / 331
Number of attempts: 2

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 576 entries

You created an ansible playbook, but forgot to add quotes. Can you fix it?

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #141 / 186
Number of attempts: 1

xrandr outputs and dashes - 555 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 21
Position: #168 / 183
Number of attempts: 2

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 642 entries

ThunderLinks are durable hyperlinks to specific email messages generated from Thunderbird in HTML format. Leverage the power of vim to make them suitable for a markdown-formatted file.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 21
Position: #73 / 143
Number of attempts: 4

Simple, Practical, and Common - 32765 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 22
Position: #477 / 7241
Number of attempts: 18

Swap values - 4409 entries

Well, swap the values...

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #877 / 1235
Number of attempts: 7

prepend * to every non-blank line - 5829 entries

Prepend an asterisk to every non-blank line in the input file.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #417 / 1434
Number of attempts: 5

One number per line - 18294 entries

Just give me the numbers.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #38 / 3770
Number of attempts: 6

Quote modules - 985 entries

Complete golang import statement.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 25
Position: #100 / 252
Number of attempts: 4

Swap values inside brackets - 2417 entries

Easy challenge.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 16
Position: #224 / 557
Number of attempts: 8

V to the i - 4615 entries

Input is 99 V's. Output is 100 i's.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #379 / 1846
Number of attempts: 5

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 278 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Best score: 20
Best player score: 28
Position: #42 / 62
Number of attempts: 2

Add string initializers to an enum - 726 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 24
Position: #98 / 218
Number of attempts: 4

Add semicolons - 10467 entries

Simply add a semicolon at the end of each line

Best score: 10
Best player score: 11
Position: #1377 / 2966
Number of attempts: 1

Bad Copy Syntax - 1899 entries

Copy should be from right to left, but sometimes you type it wrong.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #151 / 483
Number of attempts: 9

Split line with dots - 2081 entries

This line is too long, split it.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #223 / 618
Number of attempts: 6

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3436 entries

easy stuff

Best score: 9
Best player score: 10
Position: #538 / 1113
Number of attempts: 1

Com(m)a Trouble - 3307 entries

Someone was real stupid when placing his commas. Can you fix it?

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #305 / 746
Number of attempts: 3

Box it - 7657 entries

Create a box around a line.

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #277 / 1829
Number of attempts: 10

Triangular Numbers - 75 entries

Generate the first 50 triangular numbers.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 22
Position: #18 / 23
Number of attempts: 2

multiple cursor alternative - 1434 entries

from: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/6w5pfa/crosspost_from_remacs_how_would_you_do_this_in_vim/

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #43 / 367
Number of attempts: 5

From argument to object - 1256 entries

This task typifies those programmers endure while coding. This C-family pseudocode needs a function argument to be repurposed as an object call. Simply search and replace? Repeat a pattern of edits?

Best score: 17
Best player score: 17
Position: #74 / 415
Number of attempts: 3

Every other line - 2790 entries

AaAaAaA

Best score: 12
Best player score: 17
Position: #479 / 679
Number of attempts: 3

Copy three lines - 2766 entries

If the site is up (by some miracle), make the text under every header identical.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #84 / 620
Number of attempts: 7

Array propagate - 290 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

Best score: 23
Best player score: 28
Position: #63 / 102
Number of attempts: 2

Extract argument from function - 2194 entries

The aim is to see if you can do some refactoring very fast.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #195 / 723
Number of attempts: 3

Start coding format - 128 entries

I used to start coding with following format: int main(){ -(cursor here) }

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #54 / 63
Number of attempts: 6

Search and Replace 0 - 4583 entries

Replace every instance of 'aaa' with 'xaaax'.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #800 / 1518
Number of attempts: 4

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 459 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

Best score: 30
Best player score: 33
Position: #40 / 114
Number of attempts: 3

Number Sort - 282 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #39 / 150
Number of attempts: 1

comment and uncomment code inline - 976 entries

It's very useful to be able to comment out a block of code in a quick edit. And likewise to uncomment the code. This operation often involves multi-line stanzas and even large blocks. With just line-wise navigation and insert mode this would cost you about 4 keystrokes per line. Master this hole of VimGolf and you'll quickly drop your key count in day to day Vim as well.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #85 / 291
Number of attempts: 3

Flip the bit - 102 entries

Change the specific 0 to a 1.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 10
Position: #52 / 62
Number of attempts: 2

Just the middle - 11086 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #641 / 4093
Number of attempts: 5

Team names - 1763 entries

The team names are misspelled.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #82 / 566
Number of attempts: 5

Make HTML List - 982 entries

Turn the comma separated list into an unordered html list.

Best score: 33
Best player score: 47
Position: #144 / 259
Number of attempts: 2

Todo list specification - 359 entries

The every item on the todo list must be done today. Modify the list to reflect that.

Best score: 37
Best player score: 37
Position: #60 / 164
Number of attempts: 5

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 881 entries

A novice Python using prints Hello World! and a pro shows him different way. Using vim to get into pro style from novice, win the challenge.

Best score: 39
Best player score: 41
Position: #65 / 340
Number of attempts: 4

For all cases. - 123 entries

In this case... change it! :) Watch the line.

Best score: 8
Best player score: 8
Position: #54 / 87
Number of attempts: 1

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 225 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #65 / 123
Number of attempts: 2

Missing Library and a Typo - 826 entries

I forgot to add a c library, please add it for me. Also I'm bad at typing so fix my typo too.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 17
Position: #108 / 202
Number of attempts: 4

Basic renumbering - 5408 entries

Renumbering Basic.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 14
Position: #430 / 1221
Number of attempts: 13

Adam's challenge - 906 entries

Change both normal to bold and 4 by 2. Adam Wathan challenge this on twitter . He did it in 11 keystrokes on Sublime.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 19
Position: #109 / 254
Number of attempts: 2

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 791 entries

Get rid of the '%' symbols and shift the decimal place. This is the easier version - all the columns line up.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #167 / 269
Number of attempts: 2

Nesting SASS - 246 entries

Move a block inside another block and indent it

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #35 / 87
Number of attempts: 3

Fun With The Diagonal - 96 entries

change the lowercase characters on the main diagonal to uppercase

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #57 / 73
Number of attempts: 1

Vice versa - 7449 entries

Little role switching.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #697 / 2020
Number of attempts: 4

Free hyphen! - 144 entries

Just like "Inner hyphens", but I'm giving you a free hyphen to play with. Will your solution be any different?

Best score: 9
Best player score: 11
Position: #71 / 79
Number of attempts: 1

Paragraph sort - 396 entries

My large herbivorous mammals, Vim commands, and POSIX utilities need to be sorted separately.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #13 / 115
Number of attempts: 5

Paragraph breaks - 477 entries

Swap the blank lines and the aaa lines.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 15
Position: #142 / 158
Number of attempts: 2

comments galore - 956 entries

Basic comment reformatting

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #181 / 406
Number of attempts: 4

Mirrored text - 161 entries

backward and forward, and long enough to be challenging

Best score: 14
Best player score: 14
Position: #20 / 68
Number of attempts: 7

Scrambled numbers - 769 entries

Four is NOT 1. One is 1.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #8 / 178
Number of attempts: 9

Align commas - 1010 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 15
Position: #106 / 232
Number of attempts: 2

Generate a list of numbers - 269 entries

Please generate list of numbers from 1 to 20.

Best score: 14
Best player score: 15
Position: #71 / 127
Number of attempts: 2

One to Ten - 2071 entries

Generate the sequence of numbers from 1 to 10, one number per line. Inspired by this Reddit thread: https://redd.it/ak4it2

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #393 / 634
Number of attempts: 3

Delete to the end of the current line - 711 entries

Delete to the end of the current line, but keep the character under the cursor.

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #221 / 348
Number of attempts: 1

Remove quotes after first field - 311 entries

Remove the quotes around each field except for the first field.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 24
Position: #50 / 77
Number of attempts: 1

move titles next to url, in quotes - 474 entries

had trouble with something similar

Best score: 19
Best player score: 22
Position: #84 / 126
Number of attempts: 6

Array transposition - 2258 entries

Transpose two arrays into one.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 17
Position: #90 / 426
Number of attempts: 11

Assign numbers to fields - 91 entries

You are given a list of space-separated strings. Add an increasing numeric prefix to each one.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 19
Position: #22 / 51
Number of attempts: 2

Mirror Symmetry - 752 entries

Add backslashes.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 7
Position: #78 / 257
Number of attempts: 6

Swap assigned value - 536 entries

Simple problem but looking for interesting solutions.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #88 / 229
Number of attempts: 2

From A to B - 533 entries

Mirror and change this text block

Best score: 16
Best player score: 16
Position: #19 / 149
Number of attempts: 5

Collect List - 4155 entries

Convert to comma separated list.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #217 / 1161
Number of attempts: 5

camel riding - 737 entries

add a prefix on some camelCase variables

Best score: 15
Best player score: 16
Position: #136 / 264
Number of attempts: 4

Logging with key - 286 entries

Sometimes it is better to log with meaningful key

Best score: 21
Best player score: 21
Position: #21 / 82
Number of attempts: 8

Space out the alphabet - 1551 entries

Put 3 spaces between adjacent letters.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #82 / 425
Number of attempts: 11

Mute the second method of this script - 429 entries

prepend a # infront of every line of the second method

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #124 / 228
Number of attempts: 1

Test everything! - 136 entries

... and build the desired input data structure. Transform a list of values into a non-trivial format.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 24
Position: #9 / 47
Number of attempts: 12

Condensed Cases - 735 entries

Apple's new programming language, Swift, allows two style of case statements: 1) one Enum case on each line, or 2) multiple Enum cases on a single line. Convert the following from the first case (no pun intended) to the second type.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #51 / 226
Number of attempts: 8

Happy TvvO - 379 entries

Don’t forget the past, learn from it. Happy New Year.

Best score: 12
Best player score: 12
Position: #129 / 190
Number of attempts: 2

I forgot quotes - 15666 entries

Oops.

Best score: 10
Best player score: 10
Position: #405 / 4098
Number of attempts: 8

Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 61 entries

Implementing the methods of a Java Interface

Best score: 33
Best player score: 38
Position: #10 / 25
Number of attempts: 5

-a-b-c- - 3081 entries

Put hyphens everywhere.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #338 / 1100
Number of attempts: 2

Count both ways - 935 entries

Right AND down.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #44 / 334
Number of attempts: 4

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 209 entries

Not your regular increment macro! The gaps are tricky.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 16
Position: #23 / 94
Number of attempts: 2

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1089 entries

Use :redir and crush the emacsgolfers.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 30
Position: #206 / 288
Number of attempts: 2

Don't know what this is - 1923 entries

Replace contents of brackets with matching number of spaces. Don't ask what the format's supposed to be.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 12
Position: #205 / 565
Number of attempts: 3

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 ! - 10513 entries

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2014 !

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #963 / 3629
Number of attempts: 3

attr_aligner - 3350 entries

Two attr keywords. Two separate indentations. Align the colons.

Best score: 19
Best player score: 21
Position: #200 / 678
Number of attempts: 11

Letter case trickery - 1524 entries

This file is in a downright esoteric format, consisting of hexadecimal numbers, non-hexadecimal keywords, and "Z" indicating end-of-line. Make the hexadecimal numbers lowercase.

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #20 / 494
Number of attempts: 8

quotes inside quotes - 2998 entries

taken from tip 85 of the very good book 'Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought' ! I'd be interested what people use :)

Best score: 14
Best player score: 17
Position: #911 / 1037
Number of attempts: 1

Words in parens - 12690 entries

We should all ace this, right?

Best score: 13
Best player score: 14
Position: #666 / 3906
Number of attempts: 9

Hole-in-one - 963 entries

Lets take this golf thing literally.. Drive off the tee into the hole, and of course you don't strike the ball completely clean.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 19
Position: #178 / 294
Number of attempts: 3

Word frequency alignment - 233 entries

You've got to align the second column, but the spacing is inconvenient and there are nasty tabs in the way. If you're a "real Vim ninja," this could be very quick indeed...

Best score: 5
Best player score: 5
Position: #102 / 142
Number of attempts: 6

Harder than "abcd > a b c d" - 75 entries

Not as easy as the last challenge. This time, just one space between a and b, up to 25 spaces between y and z. (Removed some lines; diff was too long.)

Best score: 15
Best player score: 22
Position: #19 / 38
Number of attempts: 1

A simple change - 379 entries

Just change the numbers in the most efficient way ...

Best score: 12
Best player score: 14
Position: #108 / 169
Number of attempts: 5

The name of the game - 614 entries

End up with the name of the game.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #231 / 334
Number of attempts: 2

Alphabet soup - 353 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Best score: 25
Best player score: 47
Position: #79 / 83
Number of attempts: 2

Vertical Limit - 2319 entries

transform a succession of one word lines to a an array of strings

Best score: 21
Best player score: 26
Position: #455 / 706
Number of attempts: 5

Switch function arguments - 1952 entries

How to switch two arguments of a function.

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #146 / 619
Number of attempts: 7

Remove noise from HTTP log - 653 entries

This piece of log (from the year 2000) contains some irrelevant data. We only want to see the HTTP method and resource.

Best score: 15
Best player score: 15
Position: #119 / 256
Number of attempts: 5

switch variable - 4871 entries

how fast can you switch two variable ?

Best score: 11
Best player score: 11
Position: #630 / 1692
Number of attempts: 5

Make it more readable - 1860 entries

Insert blank lines to make it more organized and readable

Best score: 13
Best player score: 15
Position: #290 / 613
Number of attempts: 4

Numbering a List - 1797 entries

Pretty simple, number the list.

Best score: 13
Best player score: 23
Position: #431 / 614
Number of attempts: 3

Ruby 1.9 hashes - 1123 entries

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Best score: 12
Best player score: 13
Position: #159 / 374
Number of attempts: 9

A Simple One - 880 entries

Here is a very simple one - just to illustrate/introduce a vim feature that some people seem to miss...

Best score: 9
Best player score: 9
Position: #468 / 589
Number of attempts: 1

Table Reshuffle - 328 entries

Fix the column order in this table... also append the new 'username' column.

Best score: 22
Best player score: 29
Position: #55 / 122
Number of attempts: 1

Increment, increment, increment.... - 534 entries

Vim likes macros

Best score: 10
Best player score: 12
Position: #308 / 359
Number of attempts: 1

Context insensitive completion 0 - 463 entries

Buried in the lines you're not supposed to add is the line "Add this line!" Add that line to the top of the file.

Best score: 7
Best player score: 8
Position: #126 / 217
Number of attempts: 2

Context Insensitive completion 1 - 405 entries

Finish writing this simple Python HTTP server.

Best score: 18
Best player score: 18
Position: #135 / 212
Number of attempts: 3

Whitespace, empty lines and tabs - 2797 entries

Convert tabs to spaces, strip empty lines and trailing whitespace.

Best score: 16
Best player score: 23
Position: #279 / 638
Number of attempts: 7

Simple text editing with Vim - 11431 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

Best score: 13
Best player score: 13
Position: #418 / 3357
Number of attempts: 5

Contributed Challenges

Alphabet soup - 353 entries

Create a column of all alphabet characters organized in a funky way

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 459 entries

Originally asked as question on reddit by kpthunder: https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9fvsro/what_is_the_most_efficient_way_to_go_about/

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 278 entries

Make arrow function type less verbose and easier to read

Add string initializers to an enum - 726 entries

Change Typescript enum so that it has string initializers.

xrandr outputs and dashes - 555 entries

uh oh, different video drivers identify display outputs with more dashes. Quick, need to change this xrandr script!

Arijus
Twitter: @argshook

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Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

Played Challenges

Satisfy the go linter - 1611 entries

Add quotes to ansible playbook - 576 entries

xrandr outputs and dashes - 555 entries

From a Thunderlink to a Markdown link - 642 entries

Simple, Practical, and Common - 32765 entries

Swap values - 4409 entries

prepend * to every non-blank line - 5829 entries

One number per line - 18294 entries

Quote modules - 985 entries

Swap values inside brackets - 2417 entries

V to the i - 4615 entries

Refactor typescript arrow function type - 278 entries

Add string initializers to an enum - 726 entries

Add semicolons - 10467 entries

Bad Copy Syntax - 1899 entries

Split line with dots - 2081 entries

remove lines containing the word "reader" - 3436 entries

Com(m)a Trouble - 3307 entries

Box it - 7657 entries

Triangular Numbers - 75 entries

multiple cursor alternative - 1434 entries

From argument to object - 1256 entries

Every other line - 2790 entries

Copy three lines - 2766 entries

Array propagate - 290 entries

Extract argument from function - 2194 entries

Start coding format - 128 entries

Search and Replace 0 - 4583 entries

Preferably without multi-cursor plugin - 459 entries

Number Sort - 282 entries

comment and uncomment code inline - 976 entries

Flip the bit - 102 entries

Just the middle - 11086 entries

Team names - 1763 entries

Make HTML List - 982 entries

Todo list specification - 359 entries

Python Hello World! Reformatting - 881 entries

For all cases. - 123 entries

Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 225 entries

Missing Library and a Typo - 826 entries

Basic renumbering - 5408 entries

Adam's challenge - 906 entries

Fiddle percentages into real numbers - 791 entries

Nesting SASS - 246 entries

Fun With The Diagonal - 96 entries

Vice versa - 7449 entries

Free hyphen! - 144 entries

Paragraph sort - 396 entries

Paragraph breaks - 477 entries

comments galore - 956 entries

Mirrored text - 161 entries

Scrambled numbers - 769 entries

Align commas - 1010 entries

Generate a list of numbers - 269 entries

One to Ten - 2071 entries

Delete to the end of the current line - 711 entries

Remove quotes after first field - 311 entries

move titles next to url, in quotes - 474 entries

Array transposition - 2258 entries

Assign numbers to fields - 91 entries

Mirror Symmetry - 752 entries

Swap assigned value - 536 entries

From A to B - 533 entries

Collect List - 4155 entries

camel riding - 737 entries

Logging with key - 286 entries

Space out the alphabet - 1551 entries

Mute the second method of this script - 429 entries

Test everything! - 136 entries

Condensed Cases - 735 entries

Happy TvvO - 379 entries

I forgot quotes - 15666 entries

Replace Parameter with Explicit Methods - 61 entries

-a-b-c- - 3081 entries

Count both ways - 935 entries

Neither Fizz nor Buzz - 209 entries

Do you demand a shrubbery? - 1089 entries

Arijus
Twitter: @argshook